Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paciolo) (1446/7–1517) was an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting. He was also called Luca di Borgo after his birthplace, Borgo Santo Sepolcro, Tuscany.
Luca Pacioli was born in 1445 in Borgo San Sepolcro, a small Tuscan town and belonged, being the son of Bartholomeus Pacioli, to a middle class famil...
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Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paciolo) (1446/7–1517) was an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting. He was also called Luca di Borgo after his birthplace, Borgo Santo Sepolcro, Tuscany.
Luca Pacioli was born in 1445 in Borgo San Sepolcro, a small Tuscan town and belonged, being the son of Bartholomeus Pacioli, to a middle class family. His first teacher was no less a person than the painter Piero della Francesca, who, typically for Italian Humanism, masterfully connected mathematics, science and art. In 1464 Luca Pacioli became employed as a private teacher by a rich Venetian merchant by the name of Ailtonio de Rompiasi. Together with Rompiasi's sons he attended the lectures of the mathematician Domenico Bragadino in the Scuolo di Rialto, a school of great importance for the history of Aristotelianism. Most probably he also worked as Rompiasi's bookkeeper. In 1470 Pacioli...
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